Cyprus’ Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Thursday announced the gradual lifting of most anti-coronavirus restrictions. As of Monday, Ioannou said that all high school students will start returning to their classes, while restaurants and beverage […]
Greece is set to toughen the penalties for sexual offences and will launch a special website for reporting abuse in the wake of the Greek #MeToo Movement, which started in mid-January, when allegations from an […]
Greece auctioned 26-week treasury bills on Wednesday, raising 812.5 million euros (987.7 million U.S. dollars) at a negative yield, the country’s Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) announced. The bills were sold at a minus 0.28 […]
Cyprus’ COVID-19 vaccination campaign is picking up speed as larger vaccine shipments were due to be delivered on Wednesday under the European Union’s joint vaccine procurement scheme, a Health Ministry official said. Elena Panayiotopoulou, a […]
A year after the COVID-19 pandemic reached Greece, 60 percent of citizens are more concerned about the economic impact than the health crisis, according to a survey released on Wednesday. Nearly half (48 percent) of […]
The British Bases in Cyprus have confirmed that its vaccination programme will begin on March 1 with individuals falling into vulnerable groups offered the vaccine first. The AstraZeneca vaccine was flown into RAF Akrotiri on […]
The Turkish aluminum sector expects significant growth in the upcoming period despite setbacks related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ismail Gulle, chairman of the Turkish Exporters Assembly, told Xinhua on Monday. “We foresee that aluminum will […]
Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) S.A., a member of China’s COSCO Shipping Group, announced on Monday its financial results for 2020, which reflect the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Greece’s largest port. The company’s turnover […]
Turkey on Saturday reported 7,857 new COVID-19 cases, including 635 symptomatic patients, as the total number of positive cases in the country reached 2,631,876, according to its health ministry. The death toll from the virus […]
Greek actor and director Dimitris Lignadis was arrested Saturday in Athens on charges of sexual abuse, Greek national news agency AMNA reported. Shortly earlier, a prosecutor issued a warrant after evaluating two lawsuits filed by […]
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